FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is “subsisting on bread and water” because the federal jail where he is being held in advance of his fraud trial has not provided him with a vegan diet as he requested, his lawyer said on Tuesday.Bankman-Fried, 31, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to seven criminal charges contained in a new indictment during a hearing before United States Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn.His lawyer, Mark Cohen, told Netburn during the hearing that a lack of adequate food and medication provided at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center was hampering Bankman-Fried’s ability to prepare for his scheduled October trial.
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